Quality & Errors

The Joint Commission recognized more than 1,200 hospitals in its Top Performers on Key Quality Measures program, an 11% increase from the previous...Read More »

A study found that using a team-based approach can help hospitals reduce alarm fatigue.Read More »

Implementing a handoff improvement program has been found to reduce medical errors in nine hospitals, according to a new study.Read More »

When the Partnership for Patients (PfP) program was announced in April 2011, it was billed by CMS Administrator Don Berwick as "the largest...Read More »

Health technology is intended to simplify processes, improve efficiency, and?most importantly?improve care. But more studies are showing that...Read More »

Two new research studies released this month found that better collaboration with community-based caregivers is the best way to reduce hospital...Read More »

Fill in the blank: Orders in which the dose is decreased by a particular amount with each dosing interval is called a ___________.Read More »

In 2004, at the American College of Surgeons (ACS) conference in Boston, Joseph B. Cofer, MD, FACS, professor of surgery and the surgery...Read More »

Does your organization have a formalized process for debriefing after an adverse event? And if so, is it working? For many organizations,...Read More »

In what could be called one of the better Sentinel Event Alerts (SEA) released in recent years, The Joint Commission has taken aim at tubing...Read More »